[Chorus]
Pour some sugar on me
Ooh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
C'mon fire me up
Pour your sugar on me
Oh, I can't get enough

[Outro]
Pour some sugar on me
Oh, in the name of love
Pour some sugar on me
Get it, come get it
Pour your sugar on me
Pour some sugar on me
Yeah! Sugar me!

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About “Pour Some Sugar On Me”

“Pour Some Sugar On Me” was thrown together in the last ten days of recording sessions for Hysteria after producer Mutt Lange overheard Joe Elliot “playing around on the acoustic guitar singing ‘pour some sugar on me'”.

In the US, it was Hysteria’s fourth single – released a full seven months after the album had come out. At first it was “a complete failure” with rock stations and the song “was close to being shelved”. However, when producer Mutt Lange remixed it for pop stations, 70 of them picked the song up and “it exploded” across the nation, rocketing to #2 on the pop chart and finally driving the eleven-month-old Hysteria to the top of the albums chart in July of 1988.

Joe Elliot believes that the first record he ever bought, “Sugar Sugar” by The Archies, was probably his subliminal inspiration for this track. That song contains the very similar lyric “pour a little sugar on it, baby”. He was also inspired by the recent success of Run DMC’s groundbreaking collaboration with Aerosmith on “Walk This Way”. Elliot explained in 2000:

All of the sudden, rock and rap did mix, so we wrote our own.

What have the artists said about the song?

After we’d pretty much finished the album, Joe (Elliot) was playing around on the acoustic guitar singing “pour some sugar on me,” and (producer) Mutt said, “What’s that?” Within an hour or so, [they’d] formed a song and we recorded that song in 10 days, which was the quickest thing we did on the album…When we started writing the song, Mutt said it should almost be like a rap song. Even the vocal was based on a rap thing, like Public Enemy and all these bands that were coming out at the time.